Plea deal for 3 teens in ghost-hunt case

[Carol]

Reclusive ghosts on the Peninsula can relax.

Three would-be ghost hunters in hot water with San Mateo County prosecutors agreed Monday not to trespass when seeking out the paranormal, one of their attorneys said.

It started as a teenage prank on Thanksgiving night -- a ghost search at an old Pacifica elementary school, where a girl was rumored to have died.

But the three 18-year-olds from Daly City and San Francisco found themselves facing very real misdemeanor criminal charges, including attempted burglary and vandalism, for their efforts to get inside the boarded-up Fairmont School.

Facing the specter of up to 18 months in jail, Kenji Snow, Sharif Adam and Burhan Husseini agreed Monday to a plea deal in which they admitted to trespassing, an infraction on the level of a speeding ticket, defense attorney Eric Liberman said.

Fairmont School was closed in 1999 after it was deemed seismically unsafe.

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